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Reports of more Muslims calling the cover offensive, the very fact that a caricature was made an insult to religion. Settle down there, and think.

From what it's been interpreted to me, Mohammed didn't want to be worshipped, didn't want anyone to be praying to icons of him instead of the god he was speaking for (atheist, not important here). So it's not "make no images of me", it's "don't worship me" and icons were something used for that.

Since I doubt anyone is going to worship this cover, seems there's no problem. From that interpretation, I can understand why he might weep, over those that felt that he should be above reproach, that they should kill in his name, when he's "just a man doing a duty". ﻿

In a bold act of defiance, the remaining staff of the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo plan to publish a million copies of an 8-page edition on Wednesday and will include caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, according to their lawyer.

Let it be known, self-checkout at the store is a failed concept, cut down in its youth.

Yes, I know they are proliferating in stores, but the reality is this: so are the number of items which the stores are required by law (or just their lawyers) to ensure are not being bought by a child. Age-check for AAA batteries? Really? I could not make this stuff up.

This requires the intervention of an employee, and self checkout stations may feature 1 attendant per 6 stations. The chances of needing a person are getting higher, and you have only a 1 in 6 chance of getting that attendant immediately like you would in a normal checkout line. Paint? Just call Security why don't you?

After all was said and done, two of my items hadn't had their antitheft devices deactivated, forcing the same attendant to bring me back again to deactivate them.

I'm just finding a normal checkout lane from now on, I'm sick of technology needing an adult to realize I am an adult.﻿

+Skype You guys really need to release a new third party API. Your W8 app is bad, your Android app is bad, your desktop app is ugly, shoehorns in an advertisement platform, and forgets this thing called multiple windows. If you're not going to step up your game, get out of the way.﻿

Watched a little tv today: Five commercials. That was it, just commercials. There was a commercial on when I turned it on, and when I turned it off out of annoyance at lack of actual content. It's nice to see what I'm missing now and then, by only subscribing to NetFlix.﻿

My $.02 on Bergdahl: The President is the Commander in Chief, the prisoners at Guantanamo are under military control by Congress own insistence (who was it that wouldn't let them close it and process them civilly?) The CiC does not need to wait for their say-so, how matter much they might wish it.

They need to pull their nose and finger out and focus on domestic issues, not manufactured outrage born of selective memory (there are numerous historical examples of administrations "negotiating with terrorists").﻿

+Google Calendar​, please sort out your UI, guys. Tons of wasted space and removed features, we haven't all got phablets. Just grab the old look and give it the new paint, job done for phones. It worked great for Hangouts and such, this is just awkward.﻿

They load everything in order, without any understanding of actual relevant content. They just chew from the top of the HTML to the bottom. If there's an ad site after the title bar that the proxy server won't allow access to, they sit there, waiting, having forgotten about all that text, all that story that I actual want to read until the link resolves or (minutes later!!!) times out.

Silly browser. You should load the text in the HTML file you're on, first. Then any content also hosted on the same domain. THEN start pulling in content from other domains, but do it in parallel.

If the actual content isn't in the domain, your site is either a search engine, or it's redundant.﻿

Verizon is finally ready to acknowledge that cable TV just isn't working for a lot of us anymore.
The company is planning to launch its Internet-based TV service that can be watched on mobile devices in the "late first half of 2015," Low...

So, a "fire challenge" makes the news. After the "cinnamon challenge" and "ginger challenge" and other such things, it seems to me that anybody that doesn't see the pattern of "pain and injury for the amusement of others" is the one that's really challenged.﻿